Punjab: Bhagwant Mann asks unemployed youth to have patience

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday asked protesting youth to bear with the state government as it was working to complete the modalities to ensure that the entire recruitment process may not be stalled due to legal technicalities.
On the occasion of handing over appointment letters to 2,373 aspirants, Mann said the protesting youth should have patience and wait for some time to enable the government to complete the requisite formalities for issuing appointment letters.
Any action taken in haste for handing over appointment letters to the job aspirants protesting now could land the process in a tight spot in case somebody challenges it in the court, he said.
Taking a dig at the previous governments, Mann claimed, “What these governments had been doing in the last two months of their tenure is being done by our government in the initial two months, which makes clear our intentions to provide jobs to the eligible candidates purely on the basis of merit and their educational qualifications.”
Congratulating all those for getting job letters, Mann asked the concerned ministers to post them near their place of residence so that they could conveniently focus on the new assignment with utmost dedication and sincerity.
On the contrary, the previous governments deliberately posted government employees to far flung places just to harass them.
He, however, asked the youth not to hesitate from joining even at far off places of posting as the great personalities like former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and top film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan had left their homes to realise their dreams.
Appointment letters were handed over for the posts of SDEs and pump operators in the water resources department besides community health officers, staff nurses, ward attendants in the health and family welfare and medical education.